Posted on 20 March 2012. Tags: Illinois, Indicted, Jamaal, Jamaal Bass, linebacker, member, news, Northern, Northern Illinois, Northern Illinois Linebacker Indicted, Ohio, redshirt, Sports, TOLEDO, Yahoo
TOLEDO, Ohio – Northern Illinois linebacker Jamaal Bass has been indicted in Ohio on a felonious assault charge on allegations he intentionally ran into the Toledo marching band, knocking down a member, as he took the field when the teams played in November.
The Lucas County grand jury on Friday also indicted the redshirt freshman from Miramar, Fla., on a misdemeanor assault charge.
Bass was suspended after the game and his coach Dave Doeren apologized to the band and the university, saying the program was embarrassed.
The Blade newspaper in Toledo reports that a recording appears to show Bass jumping shoulder-first into the face of a band member and knocking over another.
Northern Illinois says Bass is still in school and his status with the team hasn’t changed.
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Posted on 20 March 2012. Tags: Assault, Band, Ben Kercheval, count, Counts, Gets, Indicted, Mar, member, news, NIU, Northern Illinois Huskies, Player, Runin, University of Toledo band member
Band run-in gets NIU LB indicted on two counts of assault
Posted by Ben Kercheval on March 19, 2012, 10:30 PM EDT
Finally, after decades of wedgies, swirlies and general bullying of band nerds at the hands of oppressive jocks, some retribution.
Over four months after Northern Illinois linebacker Jamaal Bass allegedly ran shoulder-first into a University of Toledo band member and knocking them to the ground, the football player is facing criminal charges.
A Lucas County grand jury Friday indicted Bass on one count of felonious assault and one count of misdemeanor assault for the pre-game incident, although an arraignment date has not been set. The felony charge carries a maximum sentence of up to eight years in prison.
Bass was ultimately suspended an additional two games on top of his initial one-game suspension following the punishing of the dweebs alleged assault.
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This makes me speechless. What a joke.
Forget the band thing. It’s not okay for a football player in full pads to run up and tackle a kid who’s just walking along minding his own business. The whole thing may sound goofy, niubears, but yeah, that’s a criminal assault and the SOB will think twice before he does it again.
I hate bullies.